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Art and education can dowse flames of xenophobia
Education and art are antidotes that can counter xenophobic violence in South Africa said prominent arts scholar Okwui Enwezor, who received an honorary degree at the final mid-year graduation...
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1976 – lost and found
On 16 June 1976, Soweto erupted. School pupils, protesting against apartheid education and language policies, came under police fire. The brutal images went global, precipitating an international...
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Great Minds: Eight activists who studied at UCT
As the June graduation season comes to a close – seeing some 1 379 students hooded, capped and on to the next adventure – we reflect on just a handful of the many UCT graduates who...
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Role model scientist: prestigious award for Farrant
Professor Jill Farrant of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is this year's recipient of the Erna Hamburger prize. This is awarded by the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) WISH...
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'Race' is an invention: parting words from Prof Crain Soudien
As engineering and health sciences graduands began their academic journeys on 11 June 2015, UCT bade farewell to one of its stalwart scholars. Professor Crain Soudien, the outgoing deputy...
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Kenyan researcher wins prestigious international fellowship at UCT
Dr Nadia Chanzu will be investigating why HIV-positive pregnant women on antiretroviral therapy are at particular risk of pre-term births, while on a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at UCT, sponsored...
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Answers to alumni FAQs re: Rhodes statue
Do you still have questions about UCT's decision-making process in the run-up to the removal of the Rhodes statue, and its response to recent protest action on campus? In this letter to UCT's alumni,...
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Porto Novo: an African city taking action against climate change
Taking action against climate change is hugely important in the developing countries. This is particularly true for African countries, where the impacts of climate change will hit harder. It is also...
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Why parole for Oscar Pistorius is perfectly legitimate
The decision to release South African athlete Oscar Pistorius on correctional supervision in August, having served just ten months of a five-year sentence for culpable homicide, was predictably met...
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Calling township artists to reflect on the power of place
The African Centre for Cities' Public Art and the Power of Place initiative is calling for proposals for six public art engagements in Cape Town's townships. The project will address art within the...
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Top World Bank appointment for Bhorat
UCT economist Professor Haroon Bhorat has been chosen as a member of a select World Bank team that will tackle global poverty. Professor Haroon Bhorat joins a group of eminent economists on the World...
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New dinosaur from South Africa gets Sesotho name
South African and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered a new early dinosaur from South Africa. The specimen was found in the late 1930s in the Zastron area of South Africa, about 30km from the...
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Explainer: the evolutionary arms race between bats and moths
In the struggle for survival, predators need to capture and consume prey, and prey have to avoid being eaten. Over evolutionary time this has evolved into a kind of arms race between the two, in which...
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What can be done to make sure that wind energy and Africa's vultures co-exist?
Many people see wind energy as one of the key solutions to meeting Africa's growing energy demand and mitigating climate change. As a result, wind farms are already under construction or are being...
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South Africa is failing to address malnutrition in its older people
The traditional extended family system has eroded in much of sub-Saharan Africa, leaving many older people who traditionally depended on this support vulnerable. In rural households, young people often...
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Business development training at UCT empowers taxi operators
The City of Cape Town is providing business development training facilitated by the University of Cape Town to taxi operators from Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille has...
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Master's student has her say in 'science pop idols'
It began with an email from UCT's Postgraduate Health Sciences Students' Council and ended with a trip to the United Kingdom to compete in the FameLab international competition at the Cheltenham...
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Student leaders at the heart of the socially responsive campus
How can universities harness the power of student leadership without it being tantamount to "putting a pin on a butterfly"? This was among the questions raised at a recent seminar on the topic of...
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VC visit boosts UCT Phonathon 2015
With the UCT Phonathon 2015 in full swing, Vice-Chancellor Max Price gave the student callers a welcome boost when he visited the call room a week into the month-long activity. UCT Phonathon...
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UCT appoints new Dean of Law
The University of Cape Town has appointed Professor Penelope (Penny) Andrews as the new Dean of the Faculty of Law. She will take up her post in January 2016. In his announcement of this appointment to...
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